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Earlier this week, Naughty Dog made some big-time announcements about The Last of Us Part II, including a hands-on demo available to the public at PAX East, dynamic themes, and even showed off some concept art. The biggest news for collectors, however, is the return of the much-coveted Ellie Edition of The Last of Us Part II.

Preorder The Last of Us Part 2 Ellie Edition

Preorder restocks went live starting today at 9am ET/6am PT, and they’ve already started selling out. Here are the retailers with Last of Us Part II Ellie Edition preorders right now, but this could change at any time:

• The Last of Us Part 2 Ellie Edition – (Not Yet Available) See it at Amazon
• The Last of Us Part 2 Ellie Edition – See it at Walmart SOLD OUT
• The Last of Us Part 2 Ellie Edition – See it at Best Buy SOLD OUT
• The Last of Us Part 2 Ellie Edition – See it at GameStop

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If you didn’t get, or don’t want, the $229.99 Ellie Edition, check out our Last of Us Part 2 preorder guide for all the options and their bonuses.

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Episode 4 of Star Trek: Picard, “Absolute Candor,” continues to offer up more insight into what happened to Jean-Luc 14 years ago when he resigned from Starfleet. Leaving his position as admiral had a lot of lasting effects, not just on his life and Raffi’s position, but on Romulan refugees as well. As with past episodes, “Absolute Candor” continues to call back elements of Picard’s life and the Federation’s history, while also introducing some new characters to the show.

We’ve dug through all of Episode 4 to pull out all its Easter eggs and references to Star Trek history, The Next Generation, and other series. Here’s everything you might have missed in “Absolute Candor.”

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1. The Three Musketeers

Classic literature is a big part of Jean-Luc Picard’s life throughout The Next Generation, with a big emphasis on his love of Shakespeare. In Episode 4, Picard gives a young Elnor a copy of “The Three Musketeers” by Alexandre Dumas, a classic book by an author from France (like Picard himself) that’s all about fencing–something we know Picard has extensive experience in.

While it’s a bit more tenuous a connection, we also saw a version of Picard as one of the Musketeers, along with Data and Geordi La Forge, in the holodeck fantasy program created by Lt. Reg Barclay in the Season 3 episode “Hollow Pursuits.”

2. Not Overly Fond Of Children

Picard’s relationship with Elnor shows how he’s changed over the years since his time on the Enterprise. In The Next Generation, Picard was often awkward around kids, and not really the biggest fan of small children. That changed over time as he captained the Enterprise, a huge ship with a lot of civilians and children living on it. Picard developed a relationship with Wesley Crusher after making him an acting ensign on the ship. At one point, Picard was trapped in a turbolift with a number of young science fair winners and had to rally them to get themselves out; at another point, Picard, Keiko O’Brien, Ensign Ro Laren, and Guinan were all transformed into kids for an episode. It seems Picard has changed his opinion on kids as he’s aged, thanks to the things he’s experienced over the years.

3. Fencing With Elnor

At a few points during his career on the Enterprise, we saw Picard engage in one of his hobbies: fencing. In “I, Borg,” the episode in which the Enterprise discovers Hugh, he even fences with Guinan. When he visits Elnor on Vashti, Picard spends some time teaching him to fence as well–a skill that seems to have come in handy for Elnor, as he grew up and became a sword-wielding Qowat Milat.

4. A Fan Of Klingon Opera

As they’re headed to Vashti, Agnes has a conversation about how bored she is with Rios, when she mentions that the only entertainment he has aboard (“holos,” the Star Trek equivalent of movies and TV shows) is Klingon opera. The Klingons are well-known for their dramatic and moving operas (although not everyone enjoys the culture’s approach to music), and the Enterprise tactical officer, Lt. Worf, was famously a fan.

5. A Romulan Bird Of Prey

Vashti is located in something of a lawless sector of space, it seems, thanks to the power vacuum created by the loss of the Romulan Empire. As the crew discusses, warlords have taken over control of the area, with one of them patrolling it in an old Romulan Bird of Prey. The ship shows up toward the end of the episode, where we see it in action. It’s an older model, the type that was in service during the years of Star Trek: The Original Series, when Captain James Kirk and his Enterprise sometimes came up against the Romulans.

6. The Fenris Rangers

According to Picard, Vashti’s sector used to be protected by a group called the Fenris Rangers. We don’t know much about them yet, but the group has been mentioned in interviews with Jeri Ryan, who plays Seven of Nine. We know that Seven has been a member of the Rangers in the years since the end of Star Trek: Voyager. Since Seven makes an appearance at the end of the episode, it might be that the Rangers haven’t completely given up their presence in the area.

7. Picard’s Jacket

In the later seasons of The Next Generation, Picard took to wearing a modified version of his Starfleet uniform. At the time, the modification was a result of Patrick Stewart asking for a more comfortable uniform, and he would also appear in the jacket in episodes where he’d wind up outside, such as after beaming down to the planet featured in the episode “Darmok.” The jacket we see Picard wearing when he visits Vashti is extremely close to his old captain’s jacket, except it’s all black–a nod, perhaps, to how his life has changed since he left Starfleet.

8. Shades Of Data

Narek tells Soji about an “ancient Borg ritual” he wants her to join him in, to which, Soji responds that the Borg have no rituals. As the pair head to the ventilation tunnel, you can catch Soji responding to Narek triggering her curiosity with a slight twitch of her head to the side. It’s a move extremely reminiscent of Data, who used to twitch slightly when his curiosity was piqued as well. Star Trek: Picard has suggested that something of Data might survive in Soji, but this is the first visual clue to that effect that we’ve seen.

9. Remembering Spot

When Picard tries to recruit Elnor to join his cause, he brings up Data to explain what’s happening. Elnor has heard about Data before, years earlier, it seems. In remembering him, Elnor mentions Spot, the orange cat Data kept while he served aboard the Enterprise.

10. More Emergency Holograms

While the Enterprise-E and Voyager both had Emergency Medical Holograms, it seems ship designers saw a good idea and kept it going over the years since Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: First Contact. Rios has a bunch of emergency holograms–one for medicine, one for navigation, one for hospitality for some reason, and one for tactical situations. The last one is even capable of helping him fight space battles.

11. Seven Of Nine

The last moment of Episode 4 sees another major Star Trek character’s appearance: Seven of Nine. Seven is a former Borg drone who was freed by the Voyager crew and, over time, managed to regain her humanity. We don’t know much about what she’s been doing since she left Voyager (although as mentioned, Jeri Ryan has said in interviews Seven was part of the Fenris Rangers), but the connection with the Borg that both she and Picard share seems like it’ll definitely be relevant in the future. Add in Hugh, and we’ve now got three former Borg drones from two Trek series hanging around in the story. It seems like the Borg will soon be even more important to the story.

Sonic the Hedgehog has been around for nearly 30 years and there have been a lot of variations on the character in that time. His key characteristics are generally summed up as “runs fast,” “is blue,” and “has attitude.” The Sonic we see in the live-action-meets-CGI Sonic the Hedgehog, thankfully, abandons the emphasis on ’90s buzzwords for something a little more real and vulnerable. Sonic in 2020 is quick with a quip and a pop culture reference, but he’s also just really excited to be here.

Sonic the Hedgehog foregoes pulling much from the video game and cartoon takes that came before it, choosing instead to set up something new for the character. Sonic (voiced by Ben Schwartz) in the film is something of a Superman character: an orphan with incredible power he’s not quite sure how to handle. It’s an interesting setup that the movie should have leveraged more, especially after a very brief opening that shows Sonic being chased from his home planet by a bunch of unknown bad guys for unknown reasons, who never come up again.

That backstory serves to get Sonic out of the video game world and into ours, where he’s been hiding out for years, observing everybody in the small town of Green Hills from afar and wishing he could reveal himself and end his loneliness. In his frustration, Sonic accidentally taps into his latent super-speed-induced powers, and the resulting explosion alerts the US government to his existence. Cue an ET-like story of shady G-men hunting an alien, who then happens across a friendly human–local sheriff Tom (James Marsden), or Donut Lord as Sonic knows him from afar–who helps him evade the men in black and their maniacal, mechanically inclined leader, Dr. Robotnik (Jim Carrey).

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The Sonic the Hedgehog movie is expected to have a strong start at the box office. Variety reports that the CG/live-action film is projected to make between $40 million and $45 million for its opening weekend, which includes the President’s Day holiday in the US on February 17.

Sonic should have no trouble unseating Birds of Prey, which was last weekend’s No. 1 movie with $33.2 million for its first weekend. Sonic goes up against a raft of newcomers this weekend, including the thriller Fantasy Island, the Will Ferrell/Julia Louis-Dreyfus movie Downhill, and the romance The Photograph, all of which are expected to open below Sonic.

The Sonic movie is directed by Oscar-nominated director Jeff Fowler (Gopher Broke). It was originally expected to hit theatres in 2019, but Sony moved the movie to 2020 in response to the social media backlash against the original design of Sonic.

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Four episodes in, Star Trek: Picard is finally finding its footing, now that Picard is free of Earth and finally has some gravity plating back under his feet. After a slow start in the first three episodes, the captain is on his ship, he assembled most of a crew, and he’s on mission. And while Episode 4, “Absolute Candor,” is still something of a digression as we add more characters to the proceedings, it’s one that reveals more of who Picard is and finally feels like it’s pushing the story to pick up some forward momentum.

Most of “Absolute Candor” continues to fill in the blanks surrounding Picard’s role in the Romulan rescue from 14 years before the show started, with much of the action taking place on Vashti, a world where Picard (Patrick Stewart) helped settle Romulan refugees. Here, we get our first close look at how the Federation’s abandonment of the Romulans affected actual people–the failed rescue left once-prominent and successful people stranded on a dusty, underdeveloped world, where resentment has been left to fester.

A lot of that resentment surrounds Elnor (Evan Evagora), a Romulan orphan Picard helped rescue in the lead-up to the big evacuation and left on Vashti, with the expectation of finding a better home for him later. Fourteen years later, Elnor is all grown up–and angry that Picard abandoned him, and the rest of the Romulan people.

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A battle royale mode is all but surely coming to Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, as the Season 2 opening cinematic strongly suggested it’s on the way. Now, more evidence for this has emerged. As Charlie Intel reports, multiple players have glitched into the menu for a new mode called “Warzone,” which is presumably the name of the battle royale mode.

Images from the menu show options for Weapons, Operators, and Barracks, while a page for “Drop Kits” that you can edit before matches has also popped up. Additionally, people have claimed to be able to see the new battle royale map by various and unconfirmed means. A video of the entire rumored map has also been posted online.

The Modern Warfare Season 2 update added a new “Classified” page to the game’s title screen; this is believed to be the placeholder for the Warzone battle royale mode. While these latest details seem to be legitimate, Infinity Ward has yet to make any official announcements outside of the teaser. You can re-watch this teaser in the video embed above.

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Reigning UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones made headlines recently when he pondered a future in WWE, once he’s done with MMA. “I think it’s inevitable,” he told Sports Illustrated. “I’ve always respected WWE, and I feel like the sports can be so similar.”

Should that come to pass, it sounds like he will be met with open arms by some within the wrestling company. While promoting the news that Wrestlemania 37 would be coming to the brand new SoFi Stadium in California, WWE superstar Roman Reigns had plenty of say about the potential of Jones becoming a professional wrestler.

“He’s definitely got tools. I mean, there’s no doubt he’s a bad man, no doubt,” Reigns told GameSpot and a small group of other press during the event. “But obviously what we do is a little bit different than the octagon. And it’s going to be a different travel schedule and different demands. But I definitely think he’s got a great name. He’s got a great work ethic. And he had a great, huge career still going in MMA. So I would absolutely say keep your eye on the ball from now, Jon. Don’t worry about WWE. But I definitely think there could be a future for him if he can put in the time and transition and develop the skills that we use.”

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Pokemon Home is live on Nintendo Switch and mobile devices, which means you can now transfer Pokemon from Bank to Sword and Shield (if you have a paid premium plan). While not every old Pokemon can be brought over into the Gen 8 games, a few more non-Galar-native monsters can now be added to your collection, including a handful of Legendaries.

35 Pokemon that weren’t previously obtainable in Sword and Shield can be transferred into the titles from Pokemon Home. These include the other two starters from Pokemon Red and Blue–Bulbasaur and Squirtle–as well as the three starter Pokemon from Sun and Moon: Rowlet, Litten, and Popplio.

On top of that, a few Legendaries and Mythical Pokemon can be brought into Sword and Shield via Pokemon Home, including Mewtwo, Celebi, Jirachi, and Meltan. You can also use Home to bring in regional forms that weren’t previously obtainable in the Gen 8 games, such as Alolan Vulpix and Kantonian Ponyta. You can see the full list of non-Galar Pokemon that can be transferred into Sword and Shield (courtesy of Pokemon fansite Serebii) below.

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